‎”Be careful of the life you lead; you may be the only book some people read.”

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.”

I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearOf falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my daysTo allow my living to open meTo make me less afraidMore accessibleTo loosen my heartUntil it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance.To liveSo that which came to me as seedGoes to the next as blossomAnd that which came to me as blossom,Goes on as fruit.~ Dawna Markova